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ATPM 13.05

The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. April showers certainly brought May flowers for Apple, notably the kind that grow from the branches of the money tree. Rob provides a rundown of Apple's latest financials in this month's Welcome. Wes has the blogosphere round-up on the latest digital rights hubbub, set off by the open letter by Steve Jobs to end DRM on music. When you're already using the coolest computing system in the world, where do you go next? If you're Mark, you start letting a robot clean your carpets. Lee takes us through Photoshop's bag of tricks concerning color, hues, saturation, gradients, and all sorts of other goodies you can tweak your photos with. In closing out her series on web accessibility, Miraz looks at the capabilities of Firefox and Opera. Matthew does some hacking on what is still my favorite Mac to have owned, the Cube, shoving a XFX GeForce 6200 graphics card into our beloved lucite box. Lee shares some great photos he snagged at the 2007 AirFest, held last month at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. And it may look like this month's Cortland is having a severe case of schizophrenia, but trust us, it hits on several plot points of importance. Miraz thinks Digital Photography Expert Techniques is pretty good, but badly missnamed, as it is about workflow after the fact of shooting photos, rather than during, the latter of which being what I would have thought from the title. Lee has a double-dose of reviews this month--I guess May turned out to be Lee Bennett theme month--looking at a pair of iPod accessories: the Dock Extender, which I am gear-lusting for; and the PocketDock Line Out USB. Chris raves about the Elevator, Griffin's replacement for the iCurve, which I used to use extensively. David uses Pando, which I've been following closely, but have not yet had a need to use. Ed closes this month's issue out with a look at Yep, billed as "iPhoto for PDFs". Personally, I store a lot of my PDFs in EagleFiler, but Yep certainly does look interesting. As always, you can read this month's ATPM online, as an offline webzine, a screen-optimized PDF, or a print-optimized PDF. We offer a variety of flavors for your consumption. Enjoy!